Common Cause: Endorse our Statement & Join Our Movement

Our Joint Civil Society Statement on Disability and Disarmament, ‘A Missing Dimension in the Work of the First Committee,’ was delivered at the United Nations in New York on October 16, 2024. Drafted by scholar-advocates from five organizations – in Canada, Germany, and the United States – the statement was endorsed by the 22 organizations and eight individuals listed below. Building on this platform, our aim is to significantly expand the coalition in breadth and depth, further uniting both disarmament and disability rights communities in what the statement calls the “common cause” of advancing the disability rights agenda across the full spectrum of international humanitarian disarmament diplomacy.

Join Our Movement

If you or your organization would like to join our young movement, and be named as an endorser in the joint civil society statement planned for delivery at the 2025 session of the First Committee, please email either Tammy Bernasky or Sean Howard.

Endorsing Organizations

• Able South Carolina
• Campaign Against Arms Trade
• Colombian Campaign Against Landmines (CCCM)
• Conflict and Environment Observatory
• Disability Rights International
• Facing Finance (German member of STOP KILLER ROBOTS)
• Inspiring Girls Mexico
• International Campaign to Ban Landmines – Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC)
• Latin American Network of Associations of Survivors of Antipersonnel Mines, Explosive Remnants of War and other Persons with Disabilities (RED-LAT)
• Legacies of War
• Mines Action Canada
• Peace Movement Aotearoa
• Aotearoa New Zealand Campaign on Military Spending
• Women, Peace and Security National Network, Aotearoa New Zealand
• Aotearoa New Zealand Network on Explosive Weapons
• Norwegian People’s Aid
• PROTECTION, France
• Reaching Critical Will, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
• Soka Gakkai International
• SPADO (Sustainable Peace and Action Organization), Pakistan
• Tangata Group
• United States International Council on Disabilities

Individual Endorsements

• Edward Chaka, Executive Director, Peoples Federation for National Peace and Development (PEFENAP), Malawi
• Anne Delorme, Humanité & Inclusion Canada
• Alex Garcia, Gaucha Association of Parents and Friends of Deafblind People and People with Multiple Disabilities (AGAPASM), Brazil
• Professor Paul Harpur OAM, The University of Queensland, Australia
• Dr. Alex Munyambabazi, Amputee Self-help Network Uganda (ASNU)
• Dr. Stacey Pizzino, The University of Queensland, Australia
• Professor Gerard Quinn, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• María Eugenia Villarreal, Human Security Network in Latin America and the Caribbean (SEHLAC)